Sync & Viz Of aRbitrary Streams (Savors) / News: Recent posts

CHANGES
- Added full man pages for all aspects
- Added non-XS module dependencies via App::FatPacker to simplify install
- Added ability to specify absolute or relative size in --legend
- Added --legend-pt option to change legend font size
- Added snapshots of current layout with automatic postscript stitching
- Added --snap to take periodic snapshots during console-less operation
- Added configurable snapshot location via --snap-file
- Added --passive to reverse connections from data server to views
- Added configurable statistical aggregation to chart view via --form
- Added histomap and weighted map layouts to tree view with --[xy]fields
- Added crc() convenience function for --ctype hash specifications
- Added optional low/high values to --ctype heat specifications
- Added better end of stream detection to efficiently handle static data
- Added pause and step during console-less operation
- Added syntax highlighting to console editor and help regions
- Added unlimited undo/redo to console editor
- Added ability to step all data servers to next time via binding "t"
- Added chart option to fix y axis scale instead of dynamically scaling
- Added ability to show same data columns with different labels in grid view
- Fixed inadvertent globbing during data command invocation
- Fixed handling of xml metacharacters causing exception in tree view
- Fixed overrun of rain view into legend for text longer than visible canvas
- Fixed layout directive during console-less operation
- Fixed windows in split regions showing at full size until another split
- Fixed use of deprecated python PIL method in cloud view
- Fixed non-determinism in graphs causing mismatched views on multi-displays
- Fixed omitted view arguments causing missized regions on multi-displays
- Fixed region removes causing expansion onto additional physical displays
- Changed from GeoIP database to IP2Location due to more favorable licensing
- Changed highlight of current region in console from white border to fill
- Changed embedded IP::Anonymous module to use XXTEA for easier embedding
- Removed green-cyan transition from palette as hard to distinguish
- Removed associated conference paper from doc
- Removed ipstate2() convenience function as not available in IP2Location

CHANGES
- Added optional help topic when specifying -h/--help
- Added optional display of commands without console using --command
- Added optional geometry specification of view area using --vgeometry
- Added optional color legends to views using --legend
- Added optional title bar to views using --title
- Added optional color assignment type (e.g. via hash) using --ctype
- Added optional filtering of data at view level using --grep
- Added ability to use multi-host/multi-display systems
- Added composite views using layout and view directives
- Added color directive to support unified colorization from same data
- Added host directive to specify host on which data server runs
- Added wildcard expansion to data command handling
- Added ability to specify alternate prefix during host anonymization
- Added --geometry command-line option to console
- Added --date option to chart view to specify strftime format
- Added --lines option to chart view to specify number of lines shown
- Added --count option to cloud view to increment data by any amount
- Added ability to save window to postscript file via ex :s and C-s binding
- Added catchall exception handler when debug_file set
- Added prerequisite Net::Nslookup
- Added prerequisite String::ShellQuote
- Added prerequisite Text::Balanced
- Fixed leftover data/view processes when empty messages received
- Fixed view width/height computation when --title (now --frame) specified
- Fixed graphviz-based views overrunning display area
- Fixed size of view label in console layout
- Fixed removal of comments/whitespace in ~/.savorsrc handling
- Fixed word cloud so will always generate same cloud from same data
- Fixed composite charts when variable number of fields specified
- Fixed console data line to not show internal variables
- Fixed window manager reducing specified console geometry
- Changed behavior of split directive to mirror perl split
- Changed name directive and fN variable to data directive and fD
- Changed --title option and title config value to --frame and frame
- Removed --cmin/--cmax options from grid/map views (use --ctype instead)
- Removed prerequisite Net::DNS
- Removed prerequisite Number::Fraction
- Removed prerequisite GeoIP C API

First public release of Savors.